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02958aam a2200445 i 4500 001 F5C199EED28111EC9987ED2234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220513010014 008 211006s2022 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021045284 020 $a 0231205430 020 $a 9780231205436 020 $a 0231205422 020 $a 9780231205429 035 $a (OCoLC)1287747933 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SINLB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h chi 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc-hk 082 00 $a 895.13/52 $2 23/eng/20211203 100 1 $a Dong, Qizhang, $d 1967- $e author. 240 10 $a Menghua lu. $l English 245 12 $a A catalog of such stuff as dreams are made on / $c Dung Kai-cheung ; translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson. 250 $a English edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xvi, 323 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Weatherhead books on Asia 520 $a "A playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. It consists of ninety-nine sketches of life in Hong Kong just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature develops from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and unfurls alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life. Dung blends vivid everyday details-Portuguese egg tarts, Japanese reality TV, the Hong Kong subway-with situations that are often fantastical or preposterous. The central character of each sketch, usually a young woman, flits past without reappearing. They fall into brief dalliances or relationships that last no longer than the fads that sparked them. Dung's sketches feature once trendy objects that evoke the world at the turn of the millennium, when he was writing: Hello Kitty, Final Fantasy VIII, a Windows 98 disk, a clamshell mobile phone, Air Jordans, and cargo shorts. Recognizing the imminent obsolescence of the objects it depicts, this catalog of vanished products is no mere exercise in nostalgia: its archaeology of life at the end of the last century speaks to ongoing concerns about consumerism and identity. A major work from one of Hong Kong's most gifted and original writers, this book illuminates a world where people use objects to define and even invent their own lives"-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the Chinese. 600 10 $a Dong, Qizhang, $d 1967- $v Translations into English. 651 0 $a Hong Kong (China) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a McDougall, Bonnie S., $d 1941- $e translator. 700 1 $a Hansson, Anders, $d 1944- $e translator. 830 0 $a Weatherhead books on Asia. 941 $a 2 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20221231011553.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220513010116.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F5C199EED28111EC9987ED2234ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search